Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: For the Love of Well Dressed Women in Repose

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Lovers of Parisian style and fashion with a conscious mindset and lots of chatter in between.

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Favoured Parisian addresses:

Second Hand Shops

Outlets

Favoured London addresses:

Charity Shops, Dress Agencies, and Outlets

Favoured NYC addresses:

Consignment shops, Vintage, and Restaurants

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Oh don't take any notice of me, I sometimes use a word just because I like the sound of it, regardless of meaning.

Thanks for the Assembly Line tip bani. I've just sent for the latest Makers Atelier magasine because it includes a pattern for one of those Chanelesque jackets, which I think are starting to look interesting again, although it's way down my list of things to make plus if I did, I think I'd want an oversized version.

Harrumph at YouTube sewing tutorials - I was so excited when I first found them and, to be fair I've found a couple that have been useful, but yeah so many obviously shilling, or they mumble and cover up what they're doing so you can't follow them anyway. I guess I'm discovering them a couple of years too late - as you say they're going to way of bloggers and instagrammers.

The silk is an off white, I kind of like the freshness of the white and being silk it's not a practical dress to start with so it's not that much of an issue for it to then also be an impractical colour. But a nice vibrant blue or green might be nice too. I'm undecided but I'll use cotton thread (always do with silk) so I can easily dye it another colour at any point.

I'm undecided about shiny side out or not, normally I'm not a fan of shiny a it over accentuates the curves but it being oversized it may just work.

WRT Louche, wasn't meant as a you're using the word wrong comment (from me), I was just a bit mesmerised it kept being used so positively, so was generally curious if the meaning developed differently in English.

My understanding is that that 'louche' isn't good, but it's rather attractive regardless.

Yeah, a bit like rakish - not a quality you'd seek in a life partner but something you might appreciate from a safe distance.

I think I also probably mash up 'louche' and 'slouchy'. And I've heard of 'louche tailoring' - not sure what exactly it is but it brings to mind David Bowie at Live Aid.

Well I've had a Google for louche tailoring and it seems to be tied pretty much exclusively to describing Armani when he was still a novelty, less buttoned up and not as padded out.

I get the sense there's an element of you shouldn't like it but you secretly do and that makes it even more enjoyable. It lacks the arrogance of rakish though.

I didn't think you thought it was the wrong word, bo. I like the comparison to rakish. I had written a reply, that's disappeared! Very interesting how words meanings can change. When I did French A level, we had to be careful of faux amis - words that looked the same in French, but had a different meaning in translation.

Yes, I still regularly trip up with travaille going so far as asking for taille de travaille of a cosmetics product recently and getting a face in return.

There's quite a few faux amis to trip up over. I've never heard louche used in English conversation though, is it pronounced as it is in French, I suspect in an American accent it would sound more like louw-ch than loosh.

Yeah in my head it's pronounced 'loosh' bo but you know what, I don't think I've ever said it or heard it out loud so who knows. I'll try and work it into a conversation and see what reaction I get

Interesting you've never said the word Flo, I'm always impressed by some MNers expansive vocabulary and wonder if they actually talk like that too.

I feel confident it’s loosh so I must’ve heard it. Clearly moving in brideshead revisited circles

Pmsl at taille de travaille classic! Swedish-English have a few false friends, the most famous being that “kock” means chef (“my compliments to the kock”).

Ah yes Dutch-English is full of them too, and it's further complicated by our grammar structure and that Dutch language uses sayings a lot in everyday speech which all get directly translated into English with false friends, no wonder people think we're absolute weirdos.

There's loads of books on all of it too, and people take a weird sort of pride in it fairly convinced it's a language of its own now, Dunglish or steenkolen Engels in Dutch (coal-english which harps back to the days this terrible Dutch-English was directed at some poor English coal ship workers at the ports).

We have a kok too, but because of our grammar structure it wouldn't be unusual to hear a Dutchie say in English, may I thank your cock for the lovely dinner?

Another famous one is, How do you do and how do you do your wife?

A famous politician once held a speech in English about increasing economic prosperity (or something along those lines) promising golden showers

Needless to say, I've suffered a lot of secondhand embarrassment...

Hahahaaa if we’re finishing the thread on this note I wonder what the next one will be called

Hmm, one of my father's colleagues did once ask if someone was a croissant catholique in French speaking Africa (messed up croyez, I think) but that doesn't make for a good title. May I thank your cock for the lovely dinner? Is though 🙈

Thanks, everyone, for a good snigger before I go to the dentist!

New thread my faux amis

new thread

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New thread my faux amis

new thread

Oh well played!!!